Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map? For our next livestream we're speaking with Arbnor Hisenaj from Common Knowledge about Mapped, a tool for organisers and campaigners that transforms databases and membership lists into interactive maps.
How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal For our second livestream we're looking at the story of PlaceCal, technology that serves communities by aggregating and displaying events in a single place. Featuring Kim and Sean (GFSC), Rakesh (Tipping Point), Jay (Gendered Intelligence) and Stefan (Manchester School of Architecture).
GFSC's April Roundup New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing including our first livestream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) and an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp.
You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers It's our first live stream! You are invited to join us tomorrow (Wed 16th April) at 7:30pm to cross to the other side and play the heinous client hectoring their long-suffering creative team.
Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean has had one of his worst ideas ever, and can't wait to play it with you and 50 of our closest friends. (This is emphatically not a criticism of democracy as a concept.)
Hello, Sean Morley speaking Introducing Sean Morley: Friend, Citizen and Fully-Adult Cherub Of The Northern Weirdo Alt Comedy Fringe, justifying why his passion for the community-forming power of idiosyncratic live art is actually praxis, actually.